Profile of Jeannie Oakes, who was a transformative public scholar and leaves behind a legacy of significant research and accomplishment. Oakes was pivotal to the development of UCLA Center X, UCLA IDEA and UC/ACCORD. Her public scholarship shone a light on educational inequity in our school systems.
A look at Oakes’ personal impact on her friends, colleagues, and the educational research community.
The Pritzker Center partners with experts across campus, practitioners and agencies, and local and state policymakers in support of on-the-ground change for the Los Angeles County foster care system.
Q&A with author Tonia Sutherland and Book Excerpt
Sutherland, an internationally recognized expert on Black archival practices, employs a lens of critical archival, digital, and cultural studies in her examination of the technology and societal mores around the ways that Black Americans are portrayed posthumously online.
Q&A with Lori Patton Davis and Book Excerpt
Lori Patton Davis has channeled her expertise as a higher education and student affairs professional and a researcher into her new book, “Embracing Queer Students’ Diverse Identities at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: A Primer for Presidents, Administrators and Faculty,” that provides a vivid picture of what it is to be a Black LGBTQ+ college student.
Sarah Bang, Director, P-12 Public School Partnerships at UCLA School of Education and Information Studies reflects on K-12 educational needs after the […]
The Joint Music Education Program is a partnership between the Teacher Education Program at UCLA Center X, and the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.
Ananda Marin, a UCLA associate professor of education and the daughter of a jazz musician, studies the ways that artists improvise and how collaboration and community can transform education.
Maryanne Wolf, director of the UCLA Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice, shares how the arts reveal and develop the hidden strengths of students with dyslexia and other diverse learners.
Q&A with Lindsay Lindberg, UCLA doctoral student researcher and president-elect of the California Dance Education Association, discusses the future of K-12 arts education for the teacher workforce, students, and school culture.
Thuy Vo Dang, assistant professor of information studies, discusses how memory work and archives will enhance K–12 learning, with ways to preserve and empower marginalized communities with teaching about identity, based on primary sources.
UCLA Lab School principal Georgia Lazo, UCLA Community Schooling director Karen Hunter Quartz, educators, leaders, and researchers weigh in on the intrinsic value of the arts in K–12 learning.
The Allan Murray Cartter Professor of Higher Education will be inducted into the National Academy of Education this month.
